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Beginning on Monday night, some 20,000 endangered Olive Ridley turtles stormed a beach in the Indian state of Orissa to lay their eggs. This year’s nesting began nearly a month later than last year, but this is not unusual, says a report in the Times of India.
Unusual or not, late nesting means more eggs will [...]
Rural India does not have much infrastructure or development, but it does have plenty of sun.
450 million people in India live without electricity, many in places with no connection to any power grid. Therefore inexpensive photovoltaic solar panels offer a practical solution for those who live off grid and have little money.
Independent solar power can [...]
In some Asian countries clean water is an increasingly scarce and politically charged resource – and climate change will only make things worse.
Pakistan and India, both reliant on the shared waters of Indus River for irrigation and hydroelectric power, face problems including floods, water shortages, chronically high levels of unsafe drinking water as well as [...]
Vedanta Resources plc, an India-based mining firm, has been the subject of much criticism from the press and activist groups – including Amnesty International and Survival International – due to questionable human rights and environmental practices. In October 2008, The Ecologist reported that the partly British-owned company was to establish a bauxite mine on a [...]
Dozens of giant underground coal fires have been burning in the Indian state of Jharkhand for almost 100 years, according to a BBC News report. Attempts at extinguishing the fires have so far been unsuccessful. Now, the Indian government wants to move in and put out the fires with water and chemicals, and subsequently remove [...]
In India, many factory workers heavily depend on coal power – which can be very environmentally harmful – to make ends meet.
– Al Jazeera English
Glass factories in Northern India provide the South Asian country’s poor with important jobs, yet the furnaces used in glass production are coal powered. Al Jazeera English reports on India’s carbon [...]
Statements made by China’s most senior climate change negotiator at a meeting of major developing nations in New Delhi on Sunday harkened back to George W. Bush’s erstwhile position that – in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence – global warming needed ‘more study’. Climate change special representative Xie Zhenhua, while maintaining that there is [...]
‘The Sundarbans, a network of islands that spans the mouth of the Ganges delta from eastern India to Bangladesh, are sinking rapidly. The seas around the islands in the Bay of Bengal that support a unique mangrove ecosystem are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth, and the lives and livelihoods of more than 4 [...]
The major developing nations of China, India, Brazil and South Africa will meet on January 24th in New Delhi to hash out a common position on emission reductions and climate aid. It is believed that once such an agreement is reached the block of powerful developing countries will then attempt to convince other nations to [...]
Death, birth defects, contaminated soil and water as well as skin, vision and breathing diseases, are some of the effects that linger in the Indian city of Bhopal some 25 years after a massive poison gas leak. On December 3rd, 1984, the worst chemical disaster in history took place in this central Indian city, causing [...]
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